Yes, that was super normal. I actually broke up with a guy because I couldn’t stand to go to his house, because his father spent all night smoking in a chair in front of the TV, and his mother spent the night drinking a whole box of Chardonnay over ice, smoking endlessly, and calling every single person she knew on the planet all night long until she was hiccuping drunk and the father had to put her to bed. It never would have gone anywhere so it didn’t matter but it was just disgusting. Then in the late 90s my mother took up smoking again after quitting for several years and insisted on doing it in the house, and it made me sick time and again.
My mother still does the recreational phone call thing and I seriously don’t fucking get it. Are the people she is calling endlessly just too polite to tell her to chill out? For decades on end?
I would sometimes sit in the next room and listen to her, and she was in the very old saying “threshing old straw”, going over fights and arguments and insults and such she had had years before. Like clearly what she needed was therapy.
Yes, that was super normal. I actually broke up with a guy because I couldn’t stand to go to his house, because his father spent all night smoking in a chair in front of the TV, and his mother spent the night drinking a whole box of Chardonnay over ice, smoking endlessly, and calling every single person she knew on the planet all night long until she was hiccuping drunk and the father had to put her to bed. It never would have gone anywhere so it didn’t matter but it was just disgusting. Then in the late 90s my mother took up smoking again after quitting for several years and insisted on doing it in the house, and it made me sick time and again.
My mother still does the recreational phone call thing and I seriously don’t fucking get it. Are the people she is calling endlessly just too polite to tell her to chill out? For decades on end?
Maybe they’re the same way as her?
I would sometimes sit in the next room and listen to her, and she was in the very old saying “threshing old straw”, going over fights and arguments and insults and such she had had years before. Like clearly what she needed was therapy.
Imagine being clock blocked by your Dad’s smoking habit. Tough break. Thanks Dad.